Everwilde Farms - March 31st

Seeding starting around the middle of March. It's a small batch this year.
Only around 70,000 plants. :-)

After only a week, life is starting to poke through!

Stay tuned for continuing updates! :-)

The last of the flowers...

The Fall-blooming Asters provide a final burst of color which compliment the changing shades in the trees. This field was swarming with bees,  but I took my chances! ;-)

Early Fall at Everwilde Farms

Seed cleaning and harvesting is at it's peak right now. The piles are a 

combination of seeds in their pods waiting to be cleaned, and heaps of chaff. 

Instead of new plants, the greenhouse is now full of seed head drying 

down and waiting to be threshed. 

'Pearly Everlasting' after it's first threshing through the blower and fan. 

Sifting 'Obedient Plant' seeds from it's chaff. 

Caption anybody?? :-)

A field worker's survival! :-)

My little comic relief.

Like father, like son. I am always blessed by how my employer 

involves his little, almost three-year-old boy in every farm task possible. 

A day at Everwilde Farms

In addition to flowers this year, my employer is growing organic vegetables for a produce co-op. Yesterday was a day of harvesting a variety of vegetables which broke up the monotony of field work quite nicely!

Freshly cut cantaloupe.

These yellow cherry tomatoes are my favorites. So sweet!!

Heirloom tomatoes. 

These remind me so much of jelly beans!

My employer's wife; a great help in the fields, and a sweet, sweet friend of mine! We break up the long hours of tomato picking by launching rotten cherry tomatoes at each other! :-)

The sweetest, nummiest home-grown watermelon I have ever tasted!

The showy-black-eyed-susan is in full bloom right now!

SO pretty!